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Welcome to our website. I am a hobby breeder, situated in North Devon, England, UK (map at bottom of page ,shows where we are) on a quest to breed a healthy small spaniel similar in temperament to the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel with our outcross breeding program. Please take your time to read the information on this website before contacting us
WE DO NOT EXPORT PUPPIES
Why I don't export
Our breeding dogs are multi-generational extensively health tested. With all our breeding stock used in our outcross program having recommended and relevant DNA tests for their breed/breeds. Breeding stock eye examined on the BVA Hereditary Eye Disease Scheme for dogs, MRI scanned on the BVA scheme using the BVA chiari malformation/syringomyelia breeding protocol, and heart examined using The Kennel Club Heart Scheme for Cavalier King Charles breeding protocol
Millie of Poundlane in 2010
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“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.” ― Milan Kundera
Ten years on from the photo opposite, four generations of heatlh tested Mums at Poundlane. LtoR: Teagol, her Mum, Blottie, her Grandmother, Smudge and her Great Grandmother, Millie in 2020
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Health, Happiness & Temperment
Welcome to Poundlane. In the pages of this site I hope to share what I know about breeding healthy functional dogs, and help you to answer some of the questions you have about getting a dog. Below is a bit about me, so have a good look around and hopefully enjoy!
I am a hobby breeder. Breeding for HEALTH, HAPPINESS AND TEMPERAMENT. The dogs we breed are very sweet natured dogs who really enjoy human companionship and family life.
I live in the rolling glorious North Devon countryside, England, United Kingdom with my husband, David and our children. I have been surrounded by this lovely breed since a small child back in the late seventies. Along with Cavaliers I was brought up with dogs not only as pets, but to work. With also an agricultural background, breeding has always had a strong grounding for breeding dogs to function, so health and temperament are priorities. Health and temperament are the foundations of our breeding strategy. The Cavalier unfortunately has not kept to its original breeding ideology, when separated from the King Charles spaniel, to get back to being a healthy sporting little spaniel, and is now beset with so many health problems, the only way forward we feel to salvage this breed is to outcross bringing in more genetic diversity from other breeds. The reason I put so much time and energy in to breeding a more healthy small spaniel is because they are just wonderful little dogs, and are possibly one of the best (if not the best) tempered type of dog with children.
Our first tentative steps outcrossing was crossbreeding the Cavalier with the Poodle (miniature) in 2009. Firstly researching about the type of dog the cross produces when you take the first cross and put back to the Cavalier to produce a dog 3/4 Cavalier and 1/4 Poodle. This produces a beautiful elegant small spaniel with a less extreme phenotype. In 2022, we are now several generations on from our first crossbreed litter, carefully bringing in Brittany spaniel and Cocker spaniel to our lines, which has given brilliant results, especially in giving a better healthier head conformation.
At Poundlane we work to keep up to date on genetic news, health issues and health tests for our dogs and take full advantage of the health testing schemes that the Kennel Club and British Veterinary Association run, and breed relevant and general dog population genetic tests as they become available. Articles on health issues can be found regularly on our blog What's going on at Poundlane from 2010 to 2020 and What's going on at poundlane from 2020. We use outcrossing at Poundlane in an attempt to improve health of the small spaniels we breed and produce a less exaggerated in conformation, small robust spaniel with the sweet loving nature of the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
I am a hobby breeder. Breeding for HEALTH, HAPPINESS AND TEMPERAMENT. The dogs we breed are very sweet natured dogs who really enjoy human companionship and family life.
I live in the rolling glorious North Devon countryside, England, United Kingdom with my husband, David and our children. I have been surrounded by this lovely breed since a small child back in the late seventies. Along with Cavaliers I was brought up with dogs not only as pets, but to work. With also an agricultural background, breeding has always had a strong grounding for breeding dogs to function, so health and temperament are priorities. Health and temperament are the foundations of our breeding strategy. The Cavalier unfortunately has not kept to its original breeding ideology, when separated from the King Charles spaniel, to get back to being a healthy sporting little spaniel, and is now beset with so many health problems, the only way forward we feel to salvage this breed is to outcross bringing in more genetic diversity from other breeds. The reason I put so much time and energy in to breeding a more healthy small spaniel is because they are just wonderful little dogs, and are possibly one of the best (if not the best) tempered type of dog with children.
Our first tentative steps outcrossing was crossbreeding the Cavalier with the Poodle (miniature) in 2009. Firstly researching about the type of dog the cross produces when you take the first cross and put back to the Cavalier to produce a dog 3/4 Cavalier and 1/4 Poodle. This produces a beautiful elegant small spaniel with a less extreme phenotype. In 2022, we are now several generations on from our first crossbreed litter, carefully bringing in Brittany spaniel and Cocker spaniel to our lines, which has given brilliant results, especially in giving a better healthier head conformation.
At Poundlane we work to keep up to date on genetic news, health issues and health tests for our dogs and take full advantage of the health testing schemes that the Kennel Club and British Veterinary Association run, and breed relevant and general dog population genetic tests as they become available. Articles on health issues can be found regularly on our blog What's going on at Poundlane from 2010 to 2020 and What's going on at poundlane from 2020. We use outcrossing at Poundlane in an attempt to improve health of the small spaniels we breed and produce a less exaggerated in conformation, small robust spaniel with the sweet loving nature of the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
Granddaughter to Millie (above) Bumble 2021 (Smudge's daughter)
Getting a puppy
This website has not been created just to promote Poundlane, but to help people wishing to bring a puppy into their family, to understand what they are undertaking, and how to recognize a good breeder. Which can be read about on the Guide To Buying A Puppy page, and also our blog What's going on at Poundlane has useful articles on it about puppies and dogs. A book that can be useful to read before getting a puppy is "The Perfect Puppy." by Gwen Bailey.
Please take a good look around, and I hope this website is a help to you.
Please take a good look around, and I hope this website is a help to you.
Great Granddaughter of Millie above, Poundlane Teagol 2019 (Blottie's daughter))
Contact Details
If after reading our website you are interested in what we are doing at Poundlane. You can then contact me (Jane) by phone at 01769 560969 for a friendly chat.
Great Great Granddaughter of Millie (top of page) Poundlane Polly 2021(Teagol's daughter)
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'In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.'
- Edward Hoagland |
 “The Dog Whisperer" by Roger Inman |